Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-06-11
WILD MEn o. The PLAINS.
Life OF the savascs Encouutrstf b.
FTUmont Ia Hia Enrty Eapiora

Life OF the savases Encountrstd bY
FrVmont Ia his Eariy ESpiora
tions
When Fremont explored the great tsasis %
Of which Nevada aud uiaa have since bsrs
arved be found the lniians really uiid mru.
Their business vas 10 Est food. their fzrrs-
atIou ~ make war. The uru lived al1ar. tAs
women lived alone, bat The lives u both urrs
devoted 70 gsttiug Something q sas, sags
M l0Htha Csnt8fssiaa. Tbs women giesuni
from the earth Verythiux of vegetable Or 70
sect life; the men killed ever animal th-y
could dad foE food aud every maa u svfry
other trlls Tor pleasure.
One day the exploring party rnramps,l trs
thousand feet up1u a m1uaiaIn. near a sarirz
Fresh tracks made 10 the SAID b. ; uBafnf,
naked feet werc discovered but no u,hgs lpds
cations of human life
After a supper % antelope stake the safa
were lying around the camp Ore smoking ara
couyvrsing. XII Carson Was lying 90 be
back With bis pipe ia hts moath 81 hand.
under bis bead, aud his feet lpwari the Gee.
sudieuly be half rose, aud. p1inslaE % u.
other side Of the Gre, exclaimed .raax
therefn
In the blaze Of the Ore, pssring over be-
skinny, crooked hands. witch shaded her 49,.
from the giarv, stood 40 Old woman, nrsyl,
naked, her grizzly hair hanging over lace asd
shoulders
She had thought ~ camp d her own psasls
aud had began to faik. wtAL seeing Toe r6iis
fArrs, she became paraiyzryi with terror.
She turned 10 escape, but the msn gathered
around her and brought her near 70 the arr
Hunger and cold dlspcllcl her fears and she
made the white men understand that her own
people had left her 20 die a. tie spring bsratt,e
she was old aud no longer good for ANYTHING
A quarter 81 an antelope vas given her. boz
instead Of roasting Il BY the IRE shc darted On
With II into the darkness
IN The morning ner fresh tracks a, The
spring showed that she had been tbrr. for
cater during ths night. Tue party lcit for
her little supply Of food. which, with Whs,
she could gather from the nut pine trees, would
prolong lier life.
Wild men though these Indians were their
bows aud arrows showed that they sCre NO,
destitute Of Ingenuity and skin. Their bows
were made strong By winding sinews about
them. aud their arrows we're headed with w. !.
eanic glass, as sharp az steel. and worked ip
BY patient labor
a chief u tho Tlamaths, a tribe a littls
more advanced than the Wild men, was killed
In the night attack. lie had forty arrows IN
his culver, which Kit Carson pronounced ,tho
most beautiful and warIlke arrows lie had ever
SEEM
They we're headed With lancet.lIkc niece
Of Iron, and were poisoned for about ak inches.
TO which depth they could be driven into 4
pine tree.
These same Indians gathered IN a Geld Of
sagebrusl, intending 10 make hard aght
against kremont's party. hut the range Of
the rides made their arrows useless.
When they were driven out of the brush /,
was discovered that each Indian hal aprcad
his arrows on the ground IN fanllke shape, 40
that they would be ready 20 bis hand. The
rapid firing and tho quick advance az tho
whites forced them TO leave so quickly tina,
many OF them had no time TO gather up their
arrows They lay on ihe ground, with their
BRIGHT nenacing points turned toward the
white men.